Category
page 1Plays by Sophocles
Oedipus Rex
ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles
Antigone
ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles
Electra
ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonus
ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles
Philoctetes
ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles
Ajax
ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles
Trachiniae
ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles
Ichneutae
The Ichneutae (), also known as the Searchers, Trackers or Tracking Satyrs, is a fragmentary satyr play by the fifth-century BC Athenian dramatist Sophocles. Three undistinguished quotations in ancient authors were all that was known of the play until 1912, when the extensive remains of a second-century CE papyrus roll of the Ichneutae were published among the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. With more than four hundred lines surviving in their entirety or in part, the Ichneutae is now the best preserved ancient satyr play after Euripides' Cyclops, the only fully extant example of the genre. The manuscript